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<a name="accumulators"></a>Chapter&#160;1.&#160;Boost.Accumulators</h2></div>
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<span class="firstname">Eric</span> <span class="surname">Niebler</span>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="accumulators.html#accumulators.preface">Preface</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="accumulators/user_s_guide.html#accumulators.user_s_guide.the_accumulators_framework">The
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="accumulators/user_s_guide.html#accumulators.user_s_guide.the_statistical_accumulators_library">The
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        <span class="quote">&#8220;<span class="quote">It is better to be approximately right than exactly wrong.</span>&#8221;</span><br>
        <span class="emphasis"><em>-- Old adage</em></span>
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      Boost.Accumulators is both a library for incremental statistical computation
      as well as an extensible framework for incremental calculation in general.
      The library deals primarily with the concept of an <span class="emphasis"><em>accumulator</em></span>,
      which is a primitive computational entity that accepts data one sample at a
      time and maintains some internal state. These accumulators may offload some
      of their computations on other accumulators, on which they depend. Accumulators
      are grouped within an <span class="emphasis"><em>accumulator set</em></span>. Boost.Accumulators
      resolves the inter-dependencies between accumulators in a set and ensures that
      accumulators are processed in the proper order.
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